My African pellet mix is 2MM and 3MM NLS Thera A, Hikari Cichlid Excel, and Omega One Super Color (all sinking). My fish are 3"-6".
At 1.5"-3", I wouldn't use 3MM and go with 1MM.
At 1.5"-3", I wouldn't use 3MM and go with 1MM.
what should i feed them?
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Gruntking;5128564; said:
My Africans ignore floating pellets; just like my Flowerhorn ignored sinking (gave him Hikari Gold).
Did you have a bad experience with NLS? It is praised on here by just about everyone and I have always had good luck with it. I buy mine in 5 lb buckets from Pharaoh on here.
My fish won't touch the floating pellets either. I went to Petco today and got some nls my fish tore it up. I also got some of those seaweed squares and a clip, that was a waste of money lol. They wouldn't go near it. The only floating food they go near is those cubes of freeze dried shrimp and the frozen pop out things of blood worms which I am cutting back on.
Gruntking;5128564; said:
I am curious as to why you will not use NLS. Did you have a bad experience with it?
reptileguy2727;5129053; said:
Sorry for not replying earlier about the NLS.
I have had a lot of local fish keepers from down here tell me not to use it. One guy that has been running an African cichlid breeding farm for over 20 years states that many of his customers have claimed that fish have died for no reason while using NLS. He is an old timer and while i can understand that, his fish are the nicest specimens i have ever seen and he feeds catfish food that comes in 50 lb bags for mad cheap.
It is going good for me with Hikari, besides the smell(which i remove with carbon), and have no intentions of changing....
If it aint broken, dont fix it. But to each their own.
I've used NLS exclusively for years with no problems.
For Africans stay away from bloodworms and other high protein foods as it can cause problems down the track.
My suggestion would be to use the NLS Cichlid formula for now then once they get bigger switch to the larger pellet.
Hikari Excel would also be another choice if you wanted to try another brand. Omega One is also a quality food imo.
For Africans stay away from bloodworms and other high protein foods as it can cause problems down the track.
My suggestion would be to use the NLS Cichlid formula for now then once they get bigger switch to the larger pellet.
Hikari Excel would also be another choice if you wanted to try another brand. Omega One is also a quality food imo.
Fish randomly dying can be for all sorts of reasons, not just food. I haven't heard of that kind of situation before and would be very surprised if it actually had anything to do with diet and not something else they were doing (adding things like frozen food to the diet, water changes, messing with the water chemistry, aggression, etc.).
Personally I don't believe in feeding only one food exclusively. Each different flake food, is like a different kind of cereal. Would you want to only eat one specific cereal everyday?
Dropping different foods in at once is ridiculous as well. Why don't you just buy 2-3 different flake foods and a pack of frozen brine shrimp and alternate between the flakes and feed the brine once a week or so?
Also, my fish all seem not to like NLS pellets. Most of the time they will eat it, but not nearly as well as they eat the other foods I feed them.
Dropping different foods in at once is ridiculous as well. Why don't you just buy 2-3 different flake foods and a pack of frozen brine shrimp and alternate between the flakes and feed the brine once a week or so?
Also, my fish all seem not to like NLS pellets. Most of the time they will eat it, but not nearly as well as they eat the other foods I feed them.
